Coyote_Seven

Now then, if they put another fire station in another zone, they could model the contact there after Joe Rorchek. In fact, he could be in the same station as our venerable Chief Williams, and the station could be in Steel Canyon. There could be another story arc there that ties into the burning building events.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and since we already got a canine model in the game now, both stations could have a dalmatian in them.

I'll bet he's the entire fire department for Paragon City. I guess we know where all their budget cuts went to!

Seriously, while the PPD gets a division of Peacebringers, the PFD is all of one person? I guess they're relying entirely on licensed heroes to put out fires. When really, the fire department should have their own division of heroes with ice powers.

More like they remained motionless for 30 seconds, then suddenly jumped to a new position and then were motionless again for another 30 seconds. The server side lag on the old Hamidon raids was always so incredibly thick.

Yeah, you know what? I think it's time that "someone" was made an offer they can't refuse.

Don't forget all the extra hydraulics, so it can tilt and bounce and all that nice crazy stuff.

Finally, I'd be able to create my low rider elf character.

I'd add to that. If you level restrict an iTrial to 50+1, then that should guarantee at least a rare Incarnate salvage upon completion. If it's restricted to 50+2 or 50+3, a very rare at the very least.

That would help to take out some of the grind in doing these trials as well. Sometimes it feels like it takes ages to get all the rares and very rares you need to get your Incarnate abilities, and meanwhile you end up with a huge collection of threads, commons and uncommons. So either make better ways of getting the rarer bits or... something, I don't know.

That's all I got!

I wonder if this means the trials are destined to go the way of PvP in this game*; only used by an elite clique that demand such uber performance from billion inf builds, and which absolutely no one else will touch.

*(Before the changes that were made to cause that particular elite clique to flee, leaving PvP virtually abandoned, haha.)

Play my way or the highway? I'm sure he's not that out of touch with reality. If you do that sort of thing too often for too long, you'll end up losing more subscribers than you might gain from it. Probably a lot more. I'm sure the bean counters over at NCSoft wouldn't like that very much.

I don't know about anywhere else, but inside the RWZ he was most definitely saying that he wouldn't accept anyone who wasn't at least +3, and was insisting that people petitioning to join his league tell him what IO sets they had equipped.

I'd say the best way to get more money from VIPs is if you let them transfer their characters over to the new system so they get to keep their level 50s with all their badges and inf and whatever.

Not knowing at all how a CoH 2 would be like though, I'm assuming that character generation might actually be a little different. Maybe a lot different. Hopefully, backwards compatible in a way that would let VIPs pre-pay to get their vets from the original CoH into CoH 2. And I don't know, maybe those characters could get a special veteran type badge or something, as I'd assume the game's lore would be progressed however further into the future and so vet characters from the original game would be seen as being part of the old guard, or whatever.

Also I'm not really sure how much money they could make from that. How many VIP and Premium players are there, and how many of them would be willing to pre-pay how much and how far in advance to have how many of their high level characters from the original game transferred to its sequel?

Yup, I remember all the hardcore SW geeks in the audience squealing in delight the first time Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn said "I"m taking them to Coruscant" when I was at the midnight showing of Phantom Menace when it premiered.

There's an idea in there somewhere about a villain only arc where you allow some NPC heroes to save the day while you either go hunting around for some super powered McGuffin, or else you go to destroy or capture them after they've done all the work, so that you can take the credit.

Why would you be taking credit for a hero's work? Uhm... to gain another hero's trust maybe? Needs more thought.

No, it's not.

Modus ponens: If the game's original devs had planned for PvP balance from the game's inception, the differences between the archetypes when played against each other would not have been so grossly unbalanced when the Arena was finally implemented and tested. This has nothing to say about their stated intentions, only their actions. They may have wanted to balance out the ATs against each other when they started coding, but likely lacked the time, money and resources to give it any priority. At least not until Issue 4.

On the more general topic of the ability or inability to prove negatives, look up philosopher Steven Hales vs. James Randi.

Yeah? Which part? The bit about making up better Villain content, or the bit about what Marcellus Wallace looks like?

Shouldn't that be, "Wording the second statement as a negative about what you don't believe still puts the burden of proof on you."?

Follow your own rules, man!

You know, it would make for a nice surprise newspaper mission inside Ouroboros. You've actually managed to track down the game's narrator, and so you decide to go in and let him know what you think of his overwhelming bias against anything that isn't purely hero related.

The mission pop-up could be something like, "Please don't go after me! I'm just the narrator! [OK]"...

I like the cut of your jib.